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Increased employee engagement, improved continuity, and accelerated learning are just a few of the advantages of modern learning. But these aren’t the only reasons the restaurant industry is abandoning traditional training for tech-forward e-learning.

Located in the heart of Denver, Dazzle is a full-service restaurant and one of the top 100 jazz clubs in the world. Performers are front and center in the 9,000 sq ft venue, which means the service staff must be agile and efficient.

Via 313 has come a long way from a single food trailer, now opening multiple brick and mortar locations around the city. With the help of Toast’s powerful mobile POS system, they were able to increase efficiency and drastically reduce costs.

For organizations with a large and diverse workforce, the single most effective strategy to boost productivity and immediately raise their profits is through efficient scheduling procedures. It is only through proper employee management strategies that a business can expect to get the best out of its workforce.

What is employee-scheduling software? Employee scheduling software eases the pain of making and maintaining a schedule for your team. Good time tracking software is a wonderful investment in your business and your employees.

Red Robin was seeking a way to utilize their content creation tools and processes, deliver digital standard operating procedures and roll out new menu items to their 25,000 employees. Red Robin was able to grow brand awareness as a tech-savvy organization and improve employee engagement.

Modern training methods have changed significantly in recent years. This is due in part to the proliferation of video-based social networks like YouTube and Instagram that have changed how humans interact and learn new information every day. Let’s take a look at why video learning is important in employee training.

With labor budgets constantly in flux, QSR owners and operators are always looking for ways to cut costs and grow workable profit margins. A restaurant employee scheduling solution with template capabilities is an easy and intelligent method of reducing the time it takes to build accurate schedules from hours to mere minutes.

This Quick-Start Guide provides QSRs with strategic insight into how they can boost both employee engagement and customer experiences—including actionable steps and solutions to use to speed up the process.

Unos Restaurants reached out to HotSchedules when they needed a robust labor management tool to help them optimize their employees hours so that they could provide the best guest experience possible. Challenges also included managing costs with thin margins and a lack of tools to measure and manage labor.

Issues with workers not receiving enough hours, being asked to be "on-call" but are never actually called in, and being scheduled at the last minute have gained the attention of lawmakers across the country. Predictive scheduling may be coming to your area soon. Find out what you need to know and how to be ready.

In the restaurant industry, margins are slim. And with rising wages and stagnant growth, you are feeling the squeeze more than ever. In this guide, we discuss the simple, yet effective ways restaurant operators and managers can cut labor costs while optimizing your people, performance, and profits.

Staffing is critical to the success of any business, but especially in the restaurant industry with its high employee turnover rates. This research center offer insights for human resources managers to help hire, train and retain the best employees.